Akitake Kōno
Akitake Kōno (河野 秋武 Kōno Akitake, 8 October 1911 – 17 March 1978) was a Japanese film actor. He appeared in more than sixty films from 1943 to 1973. Kōno started acting with the Zenshinza theater troupe before joining the Toho studio in 1942. Mostly a character actor, he appeared in films by directors such as Akira Kurosawa and Kenji Mizoguchi as well on television.
Sanshiro Sugata
as Yoshima DanThe story of Sanshiro, a strong stubborn youth, who travels into the city in order to learn...
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The Human Condition I: No Greater Love
as Kôno TaiiAfter handing in a report on the treatment of Chinese colonial labor, Kaji is offered the post...
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Sansho the Bailiff
as TaroIn medieval Japan, a woman and her children journey to find the family's patriarch, who was...
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No Regrets for Our Youth
as ItokawaOver more than a decade, the daughter of a Kyoto Imperial University professor comes of age as...
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Sanshiro Sugata Part Two
as Genzaburo HigakiIn this government-suggested sequel, Sugata again grows as a judo master, and demonstrates his...
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The Men Who Tread on the Tiger's Tail
as IseYoshitsune Minamoto, disguised with his retinue as monks, must make do with a comical porter as...
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The Most Beautiful
as Fire and drum band instructor (uncredited)The stories of several young women who work in a 'precision optical instruments' factory during...
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Snow Trail
as HondaThree bank robbers, Eijima, Nojiri, and Takasugi, flee the police and escape into the mountains....
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Till We Meet Again
as uncreditedSaburo and Keiko fall in love with each other but the tide of war separates them.
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Three Gamblers
as Toyomatsu InoueThree closely associated gamblers have adventures in Yokohama, Hokkaido, and Macao. Gambling...
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Street of Violence
as EnomotoAn attempt is made to suppress a journalist's investigation of collusion between a rural police...
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Taira Clan Saga
as HeirokuSpecial Forces commander Captain Tadamori returns to Kyoto after successfully defeating the...
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Adventures of Zatoichi
as Intendant Gorota KajimaBlind swordsman/masseuse Zatoichi befriends a young woman looking for her father, a village...
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A Sun-Tribe Myth from the Bakumatsu Era
as MatabeiSaheji, a man-about-town, gets stuck at a high-class brothel when he can’t pay the bill. He...
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Tower of Lilies
as uncreditedA group of Okinawan high school girls are drafted as nurses during the American invasion of the...
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Points and Lines
as uncreditedBased on Matsumoto Seicho's classic mystery novel of the same name, the story centers around a...
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Souls in the Moonlight II
as Momozo ZenrikiThis is the second installment of the trilogy based on Japan’s greatest novel “The Great...
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The Conspirator
as uncreditedYoung lord Saburo Nobuyasu struggles to find comfort in life. His arranged marriage to Tokuhime,...
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Miyamoto Musashi
as Kimura SukekuroIn Part I we see the young would-be swordsman setting out to achieve greatness in war, achieving...
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Broken Swords
as uncreditedThe tragic, yet exciting story of the friendship between Nakayama Yasubei, a member of the 47...
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When a Woman Loves
as OkadaStory of a romance between a middle-aged journalist and a young woman.
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Crimson Bat, the Blind Swordswoman
as YasukeA young girl named Oichi is abandoned by her mother and blinded by a lightning strike. When her...
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New Prison Walls of Abashiri 2
as uncreditedSuehiro Katsuji, a prisoner of Abashiri, is sent to Shikoku to work at a dock where a fierce...
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Cell No. 8
as uncreditedA man and a woman meet through a strange fate. This unique melodrama depicts the course of their...
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The Scarlet Camellia
as uncreditedA young woman begins murdering all those responsible for her ailing father's condition. Because...
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Small Rats of the Edo Town
as TôzôThe action of this historical drama takes place against the background of poverty and hunger in...
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Three Women of the North
as uncreditedThe story of an airport and its air traffic control crew in a remote and northern Japanese town....
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Policeman's Diary, Part 2
as uncreditedFrom runaway brides to a typhoon, the continued adventures of Ushikata police station.
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The Wolves
as uncreditedA group of five rookie insurance salespersons, driven to desperation by the impossibility of...
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The Black Current
as uncreditedA reporter Takuo, who is sleeping in the newspaper room of the Maichō newspaper company,...
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The Outsiders
as Doctor KimuraA drama about relations between Japanese immigrants and the indigenous Ainu on Hokkaido, the...
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Saga of the Vagabonds, Part Two: Forward at Dawn
as uncreditedStory of a bandit king part 2.
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Officer Morgan and a Man of Mystery
as ChoDetective Morgan and the Japanese police cooperate to unveil the truth of the mysterious death...
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The Lord's spy
as uncreditedMaeda Tsunanori, the lord of Kaga Domain, had two young princes - Katsumaru, the son of his...
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Satan's Town
as SasakiA yakuza boss and his right-hand, Hawasaki, escape from prison. the film concentrates on their...
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Duel at Yagyu Valley
as Shinohara SamanosukeDuring the Warring States era, Hozoin Kakuzenbo and Yagyu Tajima-no-kami, being best friends,...
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The Samurai of Edo
as uncreditedThis historical film depicts the life of a man who was at the mercy of the waves during...
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A Tale of Archery at the Sanjusangendo
as Kazuma HochinoIn A Tale of Archery, young, timid bowmaster Kazuma (Akitake Kôno) seeks to beat the archery...
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Actress
as Haruyoshi KobayashiSumako, a country girl, becomes a great actress with the help of Hogetsu,a scholar who brought...
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Outlaw Under a Blue Canopy
as uncreditedSheriff Goro goes undercover to investigate drug smugglers.
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Taikoki - The Saga of Hideyoshi
as uncreditedFrom birth Hideyoshi was a restless, defiant spirit--a child of the poorest of the poor. Cast...
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Tales of Young Genji Kuro 2
as uncreditedThanks to a secret message hidden on the two sacred swords Kaen and Suien, the samurai Genji...
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Tragedy of the Coolie Samurai
as uncreditedGonza was a handsome young laborer, a footman and spear-carrier, working hard for his meager...
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Ejima and Ikushima
as 奥山好竹院This period film is inspired by one of the most notorious scandals to have taken place in...
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Souls in the Moonlight III
as uncreditedMaster swordsman, Tsukue Ryunosuke is confronted by the families of his victims. Will justice be...
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The Temptress and the Monk
as Medicine sellerNominated for Golden Berlin Bear.
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Mother Country
as uncreditedIn 1919, a group of Japanese immigrants arrives in Hawaii. Among them Yoshio Inoue and his wife...
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Restoration Fire
as HeikichiMegastar Kataoka Chiezo is Vice-commander Hijikata Toshizo of the Shinsengumi in this realistic...
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Ken
as KiuchiKokubu, captain of his university's kendo team, is a mystery to those who know him: An ascetic...
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Tange Sazen
as uncreditedIn 1730, the Tokugawa Shogunate orders the Yagyu Clan to repair a huge shrine. Since it cannot...
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The Story of Shunkin
as uncreditedBased on the novel by Junichiro Tanizaki. Story of the beautiful blind daughter of a wealthy...
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Hana no shôgai
as 多田一郎In 1842, in the Umemoku Mansion within Hikone Castle, Naosuke Ii, despite the tumultuous times,...
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Ninja Assassins
as uncreditedSaotome Mondonosuke pursues the culprit who placed a malicious curse upon Shogun Tsunekichi.
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Listen to the Voices of the Sea
as uncreditedThis film is strongly anti-war film. The film is based on the collection of writings by Japanese...
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Happily Tied to the Road
as SanemonWith flashing swordwork and a terrific story, wandering gambler Kusama Hanjiro inspires the...
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Travels of Hibari and Chiemi
as uncreditedPlayhouse employees Okimi and Otoshi become involved in an undercover officer’s investigation of...
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Heiji, the Detective
as uncreditedFamous for his coin tossing when capturing criminals, an Edo detective, Heiji, launches an...
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The Shogun’s Guard, Shinsengumi
as Furutaka ShuntaroThe Shinsengumi is a special unit of ronin commissioned by the Tokugawa shogunate to counter...
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Okatsu the Fugitive
as uncreditedOkatsu the Fugitive is the third film in the "Ohyaku/Okatsu" series. Okatsu; a "tomboy" who is...
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The Shape of Night
as uncreditedYoshie Nogami, a factory worker by day, works as a bar hostess at night. She begins a passionate...
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Castle of Flames
as uncreditedIn 17th century Japan, Young Lord Masato returns after years abroad to find everything changed:...
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Four Marriages
as uncreditedBased on a short story by Dazai Osamu, produced under the national film law. The film's hero...
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A Fishwife's Tale
as uncreditedHibari Misora plays Yoshiko, the popular daughter of a fish market owner. After discovering that...
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Toward the Decisive Battle in the Sky
as uncreditedYoung men endure challenging flight training in the Yokaren, a program feeding new pilots into...
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Mid-August Commotion
as uncreditedA suspense work based on the "Miyagi Incident," an attempted coup d'etat led by some officers...
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振袖釼法
as 大導寺平馬In Marugame Domain of Shikoku, a low-ranking foot soldier named Tagami Genbachi was envied for...
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The Last Women
as MakimuraThe events of the film are based on the real facts of the Pacific War, when in June 1944 the...
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I Want to Be a Shellfish
as uncreditedTelevision production of I Want to Be a Shellfish. On a post-war peaceful day in Japan,...
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Lady From Hell
as uncreditedThree and a half years after Japan was bombed, the tax authorities organized the T-Men. Nango is...
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Battle Troop
as MurakamiThree IJN flyers Mikami (Susumu Fujita), Kawakami (Masayuki Mori) and Murakami (Akitake Kono)...
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Farewell, My Beloved
as uncreditedDuring the early days of the war a young student, Makito (Kazuo Funaki), falls in love with Yuko...
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A History of the Japanese Underworld - The Bloody Resistance
as uncredited
The Hidden Treasure
as uncreditedShochiku's commemorative 3000th film production; a suspenseful period drama.
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The Envoy
as uncreditedSinza who is secretly the well known "Sea Glow Burglar", gives to the poor the money he takes...
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Castle of Owls
as uncreditedMovie adaptation of the 1959 ninja novel. With war against Korea looming on the horizon,...
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Hatsu sugata ushimatsu gōshi
as uncreditedFukagawa's chef Ushimatsu of the restaurant Kawatake fell in love with a maid named Omame and...
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治郎吉格子
as 久六Aboard a ship connecting Kyoto and Osaka, Osan was pickpocketed by a sham blind biwa player. A...
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Kurama tengu: Aomen yasha
as 是枝七郎左衛門At the end of the Edo period - On his way back after being invited by the three Mikados of...
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The Revenge of Yukinojo, Part 2: Dance of Revenge
as uncreditedThe second part of an entertaining historical drama depicting the eventful story of the revenge...
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Nerves for Victory
as uncreditedA young yakuza who respects obligation and humanity must face cruel and heartless turf wars...
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Traveling in Party
as uncreditedA comedy about Hikoichi, a mediocre train conductor who falls in love with a beautiful widow Sayuri.
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Men in a Rough Town
as uncreditedAn action-packed, dramatic gangster film.
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The Revenge of Yukinojo, Part 3: Sword of Revenge
as uncreditedThe final, third part of an entertaining historical drama depicting the eventful story of the...
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Sword of Vision
as Okubo HikozaemonYagyu Jubei proves his skills in this early adventure film.
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The Cannery Boat
as ShibauraDescribes the oppressed life of the crab fishermen and their final revolt which is bloodily...
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Wind, Woman and Road
as uncreditedA chance meeting between two traveling gamblers leads to a case of mistaken identity when the...
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The Revenge of Yukinojo, Part 1: Revenge and Love
as uncreditedThe first part of an entertaining historical drama depicting the eventful story of the revenge...
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Flesh Smuggling
as uncreditedA true semi-documentary drama depicting a record of a sheriff's challenge to the vivid evil of a...
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